Example sentences of "whose family " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women in this book fall essentially into two groups — those who come directly from certain peasant societies of India , Pakistan and Bangladesh and those whose families migrated from the same peasant backgrounds first to East Africa and then to Britain . |
| 2 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 3 | But Ms Harman , a London member , has angered many MPs whose families live in the north of England and Scotland . |
| 4 | But Gaelic is also the ancient language of the many Northern Irish Protestants whose families came from Scotland . |
| 5 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 6 | One stream is made up of those whose families have belonged to the church from its earliest days and who themselves have known no other spiritual home . |
| 7 | From the earliest days in England , Bunce Court was open to children whose families were victims of Nazi persecution . |
| 8 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 9 | Among those who turned to other occupations were Roman Catholic career policemen whose families had been associated with the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC , for two and three generations . |
| 10 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 11 | Children whose families come , for example , from the Caribbean , from countries in Africa or from the Indian subcontinent can greatly enrich discussion about English as a world language and about literature and drama as world concepts . |
| 12 | Most are just non-believers whose families feel a religious ceremony would be inappropriate . ’ |
| 13 | Ethnic minority elders The triple jeopardy of those from ethnic minority groups , discussed in Chapter 3 extends to those elders whose families find they are unable to care for them . |
| 14 | We should remain concerned , too , with the welfare of that substantial minority of older people for whom ( and for whose families ) ageing has brought little joy . |
| 15 | The counts are hereditary rulers whose families have long and famous histories . |
| 16 | At the top of the social pyramid was the aristocracy , large landowners whose families had long served Moscow ( the boyars ) and ex-appanage princes who had gradually been drawn to the metropolis . |
| 17 | Under the Bakuhan system daimyo were divided into two major categories : fudai ( hereditary vassals ) and tozama , those whose families had submitted to the Tokugawa only after Sekigahara . |
| 18 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 19 | Approximately 2 million Greeks , whose families had lived in the country for generations , were forcibly repatriated and nearly 6 million Armenians were systematically killed or driven from their homes . |
| 20 | This reflected both the very high cost of land on Tyneside and the very high wages of the skilled workers for whose families they were built ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1978a ; Byrne , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 22 | This group includes retired businessmen , and people who hold senior positions in such institutions as the church , the army , and the universities ; wealthy individuals whose families retain links with the business class , and whose children may well eventually enter business . |
| 23 | Children whose families have come from other countries may have a whole range of skills that are not normally recognised in English schools . |
| 24 | Likewise British textbooks use questions about mortgages , investment and interest for those whose families , or who themselves , are on social security . |
| 25 | Look , for instance at all the lonely old people whose families do not care for them . |
| 26 | The samples will be drawn from both state and private schools and will include children whose families have personal experience of unemployment as well as those who have no such experiences . |
| 27 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 28 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 29 | There 's senators whose families came from Germany and Italy and Ireland . |
| 30 | Local authorities may wish to use these powers to offer short periods of " respite care " to children in need whose families are otherwise able to accommodate them . |